Death Quotes - Page 53

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

Oh! how many times we die before death!

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

I want to be all used up when I die.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.